I can give up but what was never real.
I sacrifice illusions; nothing more. ²And as illusions go I find the gifts illusions tried to hide, awaiting me in shining welcome, and in readiness to give God’s ancient messages to me. ³His memory abides in every gift that I receive of Him. ⁴And every dream serves only to conceal the Self which is God’s only Son, the likeness of Himself, the Holy One Who still abides in Him forever, as He still abides in me.
Father, to You all sacrifice remains forever inconceivable. ²And so I cannot sacrifice except in dreams. ³As You created me, I can give up nothing You gave me. ⁴What You did not give has no reality. ⁵What loss can I anticipate except the loss of fear, and the return of love into my mind? (A Course in Miracles, W-322. See also ACIM Lesson 322 Insights.)
Because God is only Love, all His gifts are extensions of His Love. Love makes no demands; It only gives of Itself. Nothing else exists.
Yet the ego portrays God in its own image. It tells us that God demands sacrifice to His Will. But the ego demands we sacrifice our inheritance from our Creator and accept its illusions which hide the fact that we share God’s Will. We do not have to surrender to what we already are. In fact, the word “surrender” does not occur in A Course in Miracles. But to know the Love of God as ours, we do need to accept His gift.
Love gives of Itself eternally; that is its nature. We accept His gift of Love by giving It. We give It by seeing the Love in our brothers. We answer calls for Love with Love’s blessing as guided by our true Self, a.k.a. the Holy Spirit. While we still identify with the ego, we do not know how to extend Love. But our true Self knows. It extends Love without limit, for this one Self is joined with all our brothers as God’s one Son.
Today we choose to express our one Self by letting It guide our thoughts, words and actions. We let Love bring blessing to the world through us.
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